The Practical Inventor
Energy peaks at Inventing and Evaluating.
A sample curve. People with this type share where their top two peaks sit; how high they go, and the shape of the rest, varies person to person.
You generate original ideas and, almost in the same motion, sense which of them will actually fly. Where pure inventors produce a hundred possibilities and leave the sorting to someone else, you create and curate at once, so what you put forward already has a high hit rate. You are drawn to problems that need a genuinely new answer, but you have little patience for novelty that will not survive contact with reality.
At their best
You produce workable, original solutions, the kind that are both fresh and sound. You save teams the expensive detour of chasing clever ideas that were never going to work, because you have already run them through your own judgment.
Watch out
Once you have judged an idea sound, your interest can fall away before anyone has acted on it. The problem is solved in your head, so the doing feels like someone else's job, and your best ideas can stall in the gap between "this will work" and "this is done."
Who they help most
People whose energy drains at Inventing and Evaluating. For them, The Practical Inventor is the ideal partner: their energy peaks exactly where those people dip.
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